What's That Thing: The Strangest Finds. Issue 224

Every day people find mysterious things. Some find old tools of unknown purpose in the attic, others find cute things with mysterious functionality in an antique store, and others encounter mysteries just by looking under their feet.

Some things look like ancient artifacts, others - like tools from the future, and others are completely baffling. Internet users were unable to identify these unusual objects on their own. Try to guess what they are for before moving on to the answers.

1. Lightweight aluminum tool of unusual shape

Removable handle for a frying pan or baking sheet.

2. Metal device with rotating cylinders

Hand-held machine for grinding tobacco leaves.

3. Red crimping tool weighing about a kilogram, made in Italy

Tool for corking beer bottles.

4. Wooden pegs with a handle on old sailing ships

Kofel-naagel (Dutch konfijnagel) is a wooden or metal rod with a handle and shoulders at the upper end, inserted into the socket of the kofel-bar for fastening and laying on it the gear of a running rigging of a sailing vessel.

5. Small porcelain cockerels from an antique shop, 5 centimeters in size, speckled, with a hole on one side of the cockerel and at the bottom

Pie bird. Also known as a pie whistle, funnel, or pipe, a hollow ceramic device, originally invented in Europe, shaped like an open-billed bird, funnel, or stovepipe, used to vent baked goods, release steam, and preserve the crust.

6. A small metal object with multi-colored rubber bands and a screw-in part, found in a school yard

This is a spinner part.

7. Textile triangle made of mesh and nylon with a side of about 2.5 centimeters and hooks

Hanging shelf for a tent.

8. A lightweight plastic structure found in the far corner of a cupboard with a potato that accidentally fell in

A device for simultaneously filling shots.

9. Wooden box with a handle, a lid on hinges, a round hole and a ball inside

An old ballot box. Voting was carried out using balls of two colors - white and black, which participants lowered into the hole in the ballot box. When the process was completed, it was opened and counted.

10. 30-centimeter bamboo stand with unusual slots

Stand for bartender tools.